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No saints or angels
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Ivan Klíma |
"Kristyna, a dentist, lives in Prague with her unruly teenage daughter, Jana. Born on one of the most momentous days of the last century - the day Stalin died - Kristyna's life seems full of uncertai… |
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The alchemist's door
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Lisa Goldstein |
Fleeing to Prague to escape a demon attack, alchemist and astrologer John Dee assists a mystic rabbi in the creation of a clay Golem that will defend the city's Jewish Quarter and prevent the fulfill… |
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Necessary errors
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Caleb Crain |
"It's October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He's arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia's revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a countr… |
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Wolf on a string
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John Banville |
"Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary power Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar … |
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A year and a day
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Isabelle Broom |
Welcome to a city where wishes are everywhere For Megan, a winter escape to Prague with her friend Ollie is a chance to find some inspiration for her upcoming photography exhibition. But she's determ… |
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Die for You
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Lisa Unger |
In a smart New York apartment, Isabel Raine is having breakfast with her husband. After her tragic childhood, she has only ever wanted to be loved and in Marcus Raine she thought she'd found the man … |
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The Book of Splendor
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Frances Sherwood |
"Written with Frances Sherwood's inimitable wit and earthy flair, The Book of Splendor is an unusual historical novel about the most unlikely of lovers, interwoven with the mysticism of the Jewish oc… |
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The miracle game
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Josef Škvorecký |
Smiricky, from "The Engineer of Human Souls", is a witness to an event, which the Catholic townspeople insist is a miracle, but the Communist Party denounces as a fraud. A priest dies under interroga… |
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Die unsichtbare Wand
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H. G. Adler |
"Told in a ... stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our finest modernist writers, The Wall is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the pa… |
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Prague Counterpoint
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Brock Thoene |
In Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lindheim risked her life helping others escape pre-World War II Austria. The climactic ending finds her safely in Czechoslovakia, but not for long. A million other lives are … |
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The Golem's Eye
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Jonathan Stroud |
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London. |
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